Lemon Cake Recipe
Learn how to make the best lemon cake! This lemon cake is soft, moist with gentle lemony flavour and topped with lemon glaze. This lemon pound cake is made with basic ingredients and no special techniques required to make it. If you like loaf cakes you definitely should give this lemon loaf cake a try!
Lemon Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For the cake:
- ¾ cup 170g Butter, softened
- 4 Eggs
- 1 cup 200g Sugar
- 3 tablespoons Lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons Lemon zest
- 1¾ cups 220g All-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1½ teaspoons Baking powder
- â…” cup 160g Yogurt/sour cream
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
For the glaze:
- 1 cup 120g Powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons Lemon juice
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 325ºF (163ºC). Line a 9X5-inch (23X12cm) loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Make the cake: In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream butter, sugar and lemon zest, until light and pale. Add eggs, one at the time, beating to combine after each addition. Add 1/2 of the flour mixture and stir just until combined. Add yogurt/sour cream, lemon juice, vanilla extract and stir until combined. Add the remaining flour and stir until combined.
- Pour the batter into prepared pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Make the glaze: in a bowl, whisk powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. If the glze is too thick add more lemon juice, if the glaze is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
- When the cake is baked, pour the glaze over the cake and allow to cool slightly before serving.
Oh I love lemon cakes!!! This is so easy, thank you dear Chef 😘
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i made it and it came out AMAZING!!!! soft buttery and moist, i will definitely make this again!!
Thank you. Glad it’s in grams. .look forward to baking it.
Thank you for the recipes,am learning.